Unit 3 Could you please tell mewhere the restrooms are?教材解读本单元的话题为得体礼貌地运用语言索取信息及提供信息。
Section A 以购物和去游乐园游玩等日常生活为切入口，通过问路及指路引入语言操练及学习，让学生通过模拟日常真实场景体会、感受及领悟目标语言内容。
Section B 部分突出帮助学生扩充自己的描述性词汇语库，训练他们运用形容词描述相关场所的品质特征，以及对形容词句型（to be +adj.）的正确应用，在学习过程中进一步训练学生在不同场合用词用句的礼貌性及得体性。
单元目标一、知识与技能1. 掌握重点单词和短语。
2. 学会礼貌性地询问信息；能正确使用含有wh-问句的宾语从句。
3. 培养听、说、读、写四项基本技能。
二、过程与方法采用个人独立思考，两人或多人小组合作、交流的学习策略，积极创设较真实的语言环境，利用教学图片、录音机或多媒体课件来展开课堂的听力和口语交际活动。
三、情感、态度与价值观养成在不同场合下礼貌性地使用语言并能结合不同文化背景得体使用语言。
教法导航采用直观教学法，遵循以学生为主体的原则。
学法导航采用Using contest guessing和Role playing的学习策略，课时支配第1课时：Section A 1a-2d第2课时：Section A 3a-4c第3课时：Section B 1a-2d第4课时：Section B 3a-Self Check课时教案教案I第1课时Section A 1a-2d教学目标一、知识与技能1. 掌握重点词汇和短语：restroom，stamp，bookstore，beside，postcard，pardon，bathroom，rush2. 理解并掌握重点句型：Excuse me, could you tell me where I can…? Excuse me, do you know where I can…?3. 能听懂有关问路的对话。
二、过程与方法采用情境教学法，调动学生的积极性，引导他们积极参与课堂。
三、情感、态度与价值观学会语言使用的礼貌性和得体性。
教学重点礼貌地运用句型：Excuse me, could you tell me where I can…? Excuse me, do you know where I can…?能听懂有关问路的对话。
教学难点能抓住录音中的关键词。
教法导航课上引导学生积极参与课堂活动，老师少讲，鼓励学生多练。
学法导航加强小组合作学习，积极回答问题。
教学准备图片，录音机，多媒体。
教学过程Step 1 GreetingsGreet the students as usual.Step 2 Presentation1. Guessing gameShow pictures to the whole class, one student explains the places in English and another one who doesn’t look at the blackboard guesses what place it is. For example, one student says: We can save money or exchange money in this place, another one guesses it is a bank. Get students to guess the places like bank, post office, bookstore, museum, bathroom, washroom, mall and so on.2. Show some stamps to students and present the new sentences:Could you tell me where I can buy some stamps?Could you please tell me where I can get a dictionary?Do you know where I can get some magazines?Step 3 PracticeMatch each thing with a place in the picture in 1a.Read the phrases.___ get some money ___ get some magazines___ have dinner ___ get a dictionary___ get some information about the town___ buy a newspaper ___ buy some stamps___ get a pair of shoesStep 4 ListeningListen and complete the conversations in the picture in 1a. Then check the answers with the whole class.Step 5 PracticeMake conversations using the information in 1a. Then talk about your own city. For example:A: Excuse me, could you please tell me how to get to the bookstore?B: Sure, just go along Main Street until you pass Center Street. The bookstore is on your right, beside the bank.A: Thanks. Do you know when the bookstore closes today?B: It closes at 7:00 p.m. today.A: Thank you!B: You’re welcome.Step 6 Listening1. Listen and number the directions in the order that you hear them.2a You will hear some of the directions below. Number the directions in the order you hear them.2. Listen again. Show how the boy walks to the supermarket. Draw a line in the picture in 2a. Then get one student to draw the line on the blackboard.3. Listen for the third time and answer the questions.1) Excuse me, can you tell me where I can buy some medicine?2) Do you know how to go there?3) OK, great. Oh, and one more thing. Do you know when this shopping center closes tonight?Step 7 PairworkMake conversations about the other places in the picture in 2a.A: Excuse me. Can you tell me where I can buy some stamps?B: Yes, there’s a post office in this shopping center.A: Do you know how to go there?B: Yes. Go to the third floor and turn right. Then go past the bank. The post office is between the museum and the library. You should be able to get stamps.A: OK, great. Oh, and one more thing. Do you know …B: I’m not sure, but you …A: OK, thanks a lot.B: You’re welcome.Step 8 Reading1. Read the conversation in 2d and answer the questions.2. Role–play the conversation.3. Explain the language points in 2d.(1) Pardon? Restroom? You already want to rest? But we haven’t even started yet!1) pardon用作动词，后面既可以跟宾语，也可以跟双宾语；pardon sb. for doing sth.意为“原谅/宽恕某人做某事”。
e.g. Can you pardon me for not passing the exam, Mom?2) 在没有听懂对方的话，请对方重复一下时也可说pardon。
e.g. Pardon? I’m sorry I can’t follow you.(2) I’m excited to try the rides!excited和exciting的区别:1)excited意为“激动的；兴奋的”，作表语时，主语通常是人；作定语时，常用来修饰人，说明激动的表情。
e.g. All of us were excited when we heard the good news.The excited child opened his present quickly.2) exciting意为“激动人心的”，作表语时，主语通常是物；作定语时，常用来修饰物。
e.g. The movie is very exciting.My father told me an exciting story.(3) I mean … you know, a washroom or bathroom.mean作动词有以下含义：1) 有……的意思，指（多作及物动词），其后可跟名词或代词，也可跟从句。